A Type of Parental Involvement With an Isomorphic Effect on Urban Children’s Mathematics,Reading,Science,and Social Studies Achievement at Kindergarten Entry
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A Type of Parental Involvement With an Isomorphic Effect on Urban Children’s Mathematics,Reading,Science,and Social Studies Achievement at Kindergarten Entry
Research showed that children’s school-entry academic skills are strong predictors of their later achievement, thereby highlighting the importance of children’s achievement at kindergarten entry. This article defines a particular type of parental involvement in children’s education and uses a representative sample of American urban kindergarteners to examine its effect on urban children’s mathematics, reading, science, and social studies achievement at kindergarten entry. The findings in this article are isomorphic in the different subject areas and show that children with more access to this particular type of parental involvement tend to have higher academic achievement than their peers.
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